Comment by theandrewbailey

I'm not sure if my story is useful for you: I had a friend working there when they had an opening. He recommended me, and the boss asked if I knew my stuff; he said yes. I'm struggling to remember how my friend got in there.

I work in the refurb division. I walk though the receiving and demanufacturing areas looking for things that would be worth our time to resell.

Though if you have a chemistry degree, you'd probably be more helpful to the people we sell scrap to. From what the boss told me, they're the ones who shred PCBs, drives, etc. and dissolve them in acid to extract metals and other materials, like one would with mined ore.

And our certifications require us to use buyers who don't turn around and ship things off to the third world for "processing": https://sustainableelectronics.org/welcome-to-r2v3/